The United States is one of the few countries in the world without some form of universal healthcare for its population. Due to the fact that the nation has a free market system, medical treatment has primarily been supplied by a series of insurance companies working with physicians and medical establishments. This resulted in the […]

If you don’t support health care reform, you want me to die. First off, I just want to remind everyone that the “HEALTH CARE BILL” will be the “HEALTH CARE LAW” within about 48 hours. It’s over. Done. Deal with it, you selfish bastards who don’t support it. Now, the reason I point out that […]

As debate rages on between the merits of one healthcare bill vs. another, and as the Democrats and Republicans trade political barbs as to their true motivation for wanting to pass healthcare reform, perhaps the ideal compromise lies in the idyllic Green Mountains of Vermont. Vermont seems to have achieved on a state level what […]

We all know that passing any form of meaningful healthcare reform will require compromise. Major compromise is needed to reconcile the differences between the two Senate versions and then striking an accord with the House version of the healthcare bill. By traditional ideals, Republicans and Democrats will find some common ground and hammer out their […]

Apparently, Thursday’s version of the public option has a provision for states to opt out if they think it will lead to super communism. This is one of those compromises that can only have come about as a solution to a political problem because it sure isn’t a solution to the healthcare problem.[…]

Last night, Rachel Maddow interviewed Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, one of the “grass roots” organizations that travels around the country opposing healthcare reform. I found the interview so deeply troubling that I had to watch it again today.[…]